This study attempted to understand awareness for the overall need of family counseling and aims at providing a direction of support for family counseling that is leveled at married immigrant women and their families. To achieve this, this study analyzed data from the 2010 National Multicultural Families Survey, which was conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Frequency, distribution, and hierarchical multipleregression analyses on demographic variables, Korean language skills, social support, satisfaction of family relations, and experience of family counseling were conducted in view that these were factors that affected awareness for family counseling, with a total of 58,072 immigrant women who came to Korea. The results of this study are as follows: First, Korean language skills, social support, satisfaction of family relations, the study revealed that subjects recognized the need for family counseling as moderate and their Korean language skills were also moderate. Social supporters did not exceed more than two people including from both Koreans and their country natives, and subjects were satisfied with the relationships to their spouse, children, and parents in-law. Second, there were differences in opinion between the nationalities of the married immigrant women regarding the need for family counseling. Third, the following is the result of the influence of the awareness of the need for family counseling based on the demographic variables of the existence or non-existence of Korean language ability, social support, satisfactory family relationships and previous experience of family counseling.
This study investigated MMPI-2 profiles and relative effect of childhood abuse and traumatic events during prostitution, in relation to complex PTSD(CPTSD) of 42 female sex workers. Compared to the controls, the target group significantly higher than the controls in all of the CPTSD symptoms and 52.4% were assumed as the CPTSD high-risk group. Analysis of the content scales revealed that alterations in self-perception and interpersonal relationship were especially significant. The MMPI-2 profiles of the target group showed F-related scale and Hs, D, Hy, Pd, Pt, Sc, Si scales, with Pd and psychotic scales elevated above 60T. This was different from the profiles of PTSD and depressive disorder, while more similar to the profiles of childhood abused or sexually abused group. The sex workers also had experienced significantly more childhood abuse than the controls. The effect of the childhood separation and adulthood interpersonal severance/conflict in target group were relatively higher than other childhood abuses or traumatic events during prostitution and the effect of childhood competence were significant in both groups.
